Get Involved!
Each spring over 2500 skilled amateur birders and professional biologists
volunteer to participate in the North American BBS. We are always
looking for highly skilled birders to join the team. Meet some of the
BBS crew and see their routes at the photogallery.

Our requirements for participation are:

Access to suitable transportation to complete a survey.

Good hearing and eyesight.

The ability to identify all breeding birds in the area by sight
and sound. Knowledge of bird songs is extremely important, because
most birds counted on these surveys are singing males.

New BBS participants must also successfully complete the BBS
Methodology Training Program before their data will be used in
any BBS analyses. The training program is available from the national
BBS offices and the state, provincial, and territorial coordinators.